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...with the combined Thomson-Reuters and Bloomberg now so evenly matched, they may enter a kind of Cold War, with neither company able to dominate the other. If today's deal is sure to draw regulators' attention, for example, any play by Bloomberg to pick up additional market share via acquisition would likely draw even closer anti-trust scrutiny...
...Kids are getting coached as well. At Phillips Academy, Gates talked to students in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a daily class that teaches them how to how to study, read and think more effectively. Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets middling students, those "on the edge of being successful," explains Euel Bunton, principal of Phillips. While results of the program aren't yet in, attendance of AVID students is 90% - a promising sign in a school where chronic truancy has been a problem...
...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...
...reported that the White House had confirmed the deletion of 5 million emails from RNC servers. The White House has said only that monthly purges of the RNC email system from 2001 to 2004 resulted in the deletion of an unknown number of emails sent by White House staff via the RNC's system. Spokeswoman Dana Perino has said that emails may also have been deleted off the White House internal server, inadvertently, and that she could not "rule out" that as many as five million emails are missing from the default archive. The White House is investigating whether...
...interview component, it took three tries to establish a good connection via satellite phone. Iraq’s first democratic elections would be held shortly, and the military stood on edge as officials predicted that horrific violence would soon erupt...